- copy your image (
Ctrl+A
andCtrl+C
) - make a new document-sized pure-black layer behind it
- group the black layer and yor image together
- add mask to the group
- enter mask edit mode (
alt+click
on the mask icon/thumbnail) - paste your image in the mask (b/w) and then invert it.
- save it as a 24-bit transparent PNG
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Save magicznyleszek/178576519be1ea9e36cd to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Hi All.
I am trying to follow this, but perhaps I am missing a trick as everyone here seems to have this working perfectly.
I have an image on a white background that was taken in a photo booth. This has a particularly nice shadow that I would like to retain on a PNG, while removing the white background. Colour replace is not working as effectively as a multiply blending option, so this guide seems perfect.
However, I copy the images with the blended layer and the original, to a new document with a black background, then perform step 2 to 5, but upon ALT clicking the mask I cannot seem to past the image in the mask b/w and then invert. Nothing happens when I paste.
Can anyone suggest what I might be missing?
Here is a file that I am trying to do this to, but I am looking for the method, not just the result. I am so sorry if I come off as a little slow here.
@ALL OMG I only today noticed people are using this :) I need to turn on my notifications.
@lewisisonfire I think this is not for you. What you're trying to accomplish is a bit different. This instructions are for a photoshop file with a complex transparent group of objects that you need to export as a single usable png
. What you are looking for is cutting out objects with their shadows from a white background. It will take quite a lot of manual work unfortunately. I would do something similar to this YT video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zakUq2BTQDQ
@magicznleszek, I ended up using this and a similar method using an inverted version and pasting into a solid black later mask. Worked out perfectly, so thank you so much for taking the time to respond.
Wow, I just needed to do this and this was really useful, thanks!
Wohoo! Thank you!
This tip worked for me like that;
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All done lets refresh the page
OMFG!!!!! ITS WORKED ! Kisses!
Great. Thanks
I've seen this tutorial in other places, but it was far more convoluted. This is perfect. You have made my afternoon. Thanks.
@zenbug one application is if you have an image cut out of the background, for instance, an image of a piping hot mug of well-deserved coffee for @magicznyleszek, and that coffee was dropping the perfect shadow and you wanted to put a colored div behind that coffee mug and have it blend magically.